I wrote ab how the antivax movement ascended to power, and now directs govt research funding — enabling it both to manufacture “findings” and to defund actual independent research. This happened concurrently w/the dismantling of outside verification systems where info is distributed: on social. RE:
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Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
2. How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance by @noupside.bsky.social. https://www.techpolicy.press...
New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines. [www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...](
The Atlantic
The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
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The Atlantic
The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
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"It's just some people online" was the phrase that I got from the CDC after presenting as a pro-vax parent activist 10 yrs ago on how we were trying to build a counter-movement online but had no resources. This is an analysis we published in Wired, that later became the cover of The Economist. 1/2 RE:
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social)
I started studying the anti-vaccine movement more than fifteen years ago along with one of my colleagues, Dr. Kacey Ernst. It was clear to us even ...
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Katherine Boyle is a Silicon Valley caricature at this point. I have a boy who's very good at math, not so good at illusory authority, and I parent him on how to work within the confines of that system but damn lol. "It's ok to be a dick if you're good at math" is not where I've taken it. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifnn7bdb2wyk5hpzxy67ati3ye5t2q5hzbg3satkcmgucwlq3l6fy
Truth Social now has its own custom Perplexity AI search that is having some real struggles with cognitive dissonance. It knows the facts — the election wasn’t stolen! Vaccines don’t cause autism! But it ALSO seems to have had its sources constrained to right wing crank media 🫠 Poor bot… 1/2 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreidqkupe3e4ol3ytmz7mka72myxazms6ls4tqonfzotcosexa4q2sq https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiffuqvhkpcdalheh6t6wazp3vq2lnjxuypjgvyhzoe2bpjfmweyye https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifwpf4lnwm22nkmeeermdu5y5ve33jmft6lx5xzlcepxipq2y3vhy
“Tucker in the grocery store” content incoming lol https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreig5ldus7j7q23vt7zuzo2mjmyet27euklxzayyofowjgpii3ktu2u
Marc Andreesen,🥚, picked a fight with *the Pope* over a pretty basic call to exercise discernment when building AI. Marc truly believes that any constraint on anything he does is fundamentally illegitimate. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibic6a7zeatp4xrtlyxopbrsqwosxk6busd65au5yxjonw65zt7ku
Augustiner Stammhaus in Munich for dinner tonight. A room covered in seashells. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifivxrtol5hmska3yktpo5s7npe2jq7oktinjogsxju6muszsugxm https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiaf2oyersc6y56jdamoz22ebhzlwpuff62jdnqiub5kho5pqr2fh4
The Father Coughlin story is interesting because of parallels to the modern era. Wildly popular charismatic figure (30M listeners at peak when US had ~120M ppl). Private broadcasters tried to fact-check, pre-clear speeches, ban him while fans protested the censorship. FDR tried to stay out of it. RE:
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Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social)
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Wrote a book about this as it was happening! - political influencers are the new propagandists - influencers + algorithms + online crowds shape public opinion - the right is a hell of a lot better at it than the left For more evolving online trends, a substack: [agentsofinfluence.substack.com](
Agents of Influence | Renee DiResta | Substack
A place for quick takes - video and text - on social media rumors, influence operations, tech policy, and other extremely online things. Click to r...
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Reuters (@reuters.com)
In Trump 2.0, MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream reut.rs/3LO6yCi https://reut.rs/3LO6yCi